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State  of  Sou/tli  Carolina.  I 

HEAD  QUARTERS,  * 

May   L9th,  1861. 

The  Secretary  of  War  has  made  two  requisitions  for  Troops,  on  the  Governor,  amount- 
ing to  eight  thousand  men.     If  the  Regiments  were  to  lie  retained  bv  the  Slate  as  Volunteer 

iments,  then  they  are  subjeel   to  orders  to  march  whenever  and  wheresoever  direi 
by  the  Commander-in-Chief. 

The  Resolutions  of  the  Convention  seemed  as  intended  to  require  that  the  Governor 
should  give  the  honor,  in  the  first  instance,  to  the  Volunteer  Regiments  to  be  mustered  into 
the  service  or  tb  i  I  lonfcderatc  States,  and  thus,  through  the  action  of  thai  body  their  sen  ice 
should  be  changed. 

The   President   of  the  Confederate  Government,  under  a  recent  Act   of  Congress,  as 
intimated  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  adopted  the  policy  of  calling  only  for  Com] 
mustered  into  service  for  the  War,  and  theu  for  the  President  to  appoint  all   Field  officers, 
when  such   Companies  were  formed  into  Battalions  or  Regiments  ;  bul  as  eight  Volunteer 

iments  were  already  organized  in  South  Carolina,  it  has  been  determined  to  give  them 
llie  honorable  opportunity  i  ig  into  the  service  as  Regiments  with  their  Field  offi< 

Under  the  imstauces,  it   is  ordered  that  the  eight  Regiments  of  Volunteers  be 

prepared  by  their  officers  to  be  "mustered  into  service"  for  their  twelve  months  enrollment. 
For  this  purpose  the  Field  officers,  and  then  the  Company  officers  with  the  men  of  each 
Company  will  be  required  to  sign  o  rod  agreeing  distinctly  to  the  terms.  Ii  will  take 
sixty-four  Privates,  as  the  minimum,  to  make  a  Company  to  be  "mustered  in.'  and  when  a 
majority,  according  to  the  present  roll,  of  any  Company  so  agree,  then  that  Company,  by 
this  i  :rve  its  present  organization  as  a  ka-i-  to  be  filled  up  upon,  and  il 

or  ii  in  an\   Regiment  so  igree,  then  the  organization  of  that  Reginient  may 

I,  and  a  system,  hereafter   to  be  adopted,  will    be  ordered  to  make  up  the  ( 
panies   that    may  thus  have    their  majority,  but    not  sixty-four,  as   the   case  may  be  in  that 
Regimeut. 

And  Anil,  upon  the  same  system,  orders  will  be  given  to  make  up  the  remaining  Com- 
panies, after  six,  to  fill  up  the  Regiment,  always  reserving  the  right  of  the  Company  or 
I;    ■imeni.  as  the  case  may  be,  to  elect  officers  where  tbej  (the  officers)  do  n<  se  to 

change  their  sen  ii  i 

If  ten  Companies,  with  sixty-four  Privates  in  each,  be  found  to  agree  to  the  terms, 
then  such  I.  rit  is  i  omplete. 

When  these  eighl  Regiments  are  made  up,  a  portion  of  them  will  be  retained,  by  order 

of  the  (io\  ernor,  to  defend  the  Mate  of  South  Carolina,  and  if  the  Regiments  decline  to  be 

••mustered  into  the  Confederate  service,"  then  .-till  u  sufficient  number  of  them,  under  the 

present  Volunteer  organization,  will  be  retained  by  order  of  the  Commander-in'-ChieT,  for 

coast. defence  in  the  Nate.      In  any  case  however,  this  selection  will  be  made.- 

The  mi'-!"'  ;ier  "n;  -  soon  as  returns  arc  made  upon  this. 

F.  w:  PICKENS. 


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